From: Kevin Traynor Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:14:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: note minimun Linux version increase for 19.02 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c58f1b837590233a334e6bb54a941601186f0b2;p=dpdk.git doc: note minimun Linux version increase for 19.02 Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that compatibility for commonly used distribution kernels should be kept also. Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index c02ec28c10..96f5ce9b54 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ System Software uname -r +.. note:: + + Kernel version 3.2 is no longer a kernel.org longterm stable kernel. + For DPDK 19.02 the minimum required kernel will be updated to + the current kernel.org oldest longterm stable supported kernel 3.16, + or recent versions of common distributions, notably RHEL/CentOS 7. + * glibc >= 2.7 (for features related to cpuset) The version can be checked using the ``ldd --version`` command.